Tangled Web UK Review July 2007
A Quiet Belief In Angels by
Roger Jon Ellory
pbk out January 08
(Orion)
at £6.99
A young boy grows up in the shadow of a serial killer. In a rural Georgia backwater during the 1930s and 40s a man kills and mutilates young girls. Joseph, a child himself, finds one of these victims. He forms a posse with his friends to try and find the perpetrator but without success. The killing spree lasts ten years and covers several counties until a neighbour, close to Joseph’s family and under suspicion, hangs himself. These are events which haunt Joseph and shape the rest of his life. The dead are not the only victims. Joseph escapes to the big city of New York where he forges a new life as a writer then hears word that the killings have started up again. From the opening page we know that Joseph finally finds the murderer but we do not learn his identity until much later on. A Quiet Belief in Angels, Ellory’s fifth novel, must be one of the best suspense reads this year. The assurance with which Ellory writes and the lucid detail and elaboration he brings to his world are a feast for the reader. Ellory works on an epic scale but makes us care deeply for his protagonist. His use of language is dizzying and delightful.
(
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder)
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